Organised Postwar Wool Plans
LONDON—Britain welcomes the news of projected schemes for extending wool research in the Commonwealth. British research into wool usage has never…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1944
352 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 18
Hundreds Of Sheep Poisoned Happening on Menindee Lake
About 400 sheep belonging to Wirryilka Station have been poisoned through the feed on Lake Menindee. This happened a few days ago. The sheep took seriously ill, and many were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Low Standard" Complex Injurious to Wool Industry
In various fields of production an ominous tendency towards a lowering of standards has been noticed, says Australian, Mercantile, Land and Finance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat and Flour Problems in State
SYDNEY.—Within the next few months should N.S.W. suffer a drought period there will be a serious shortage of wheat and flour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Miner Tuesday, April ll, 1944. Farms For Some Soldiers
ACCORDING to official figures, applications for land in the State total more than 100 a week, the number including a fairly high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Markets Cattle Section
Only 1,015 cattle were yarded at the Adelaide Abattoirs market on Tuesday, being 375 less than for the previous sale, on the shortest since May, 1942, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Dividend
Australian woolgrowers are expected to receive a larger flat rate adjustment payment (generally known as a dividend") this season when the 1943-44…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Growers Seek Increase in Price of Wool
The price of wool to powers was far below tho value of raw wool to the world markets. Mr. Curtin was told by the president (Mr. T. W. Lillie) and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Control Of Sheep Blowfly Direct Attack Unlikely to Solve the Problem
In the light of investigational work in sheep blowfly control carried out during the last ten years, notably at Canberra, it has been necessary to revise somewhat drastically previously held ideas regarding the merits of practices such as the breeding of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Industry Mechanisation Planned
Replying to the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr. A. W. Fadden who, in Federal Parliament, raised the question of the establishment of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Investigations On Sheep Blowfly Pest
Recent advances in the prevention and treatment of blowfly strike in sheep arc discussed in Bulletin 174 just issued by the Council for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Blowfly Investigations Into Problems
Recent advances in the prevention and treatment of blowfly strike in sheep are discussed in Bulletin 174 just issued by the Council for Scientific…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Afternoon at New Well Netley Sheep Defy the Drought to Survive
The shearing of between fourteen and fifteen thousand sheep has just come to a close at the New Well shed, Netley Station. Their condition is good and the run for the most part is in a deplorable condition! And here is one of the conundrums of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazis Losing Wool Battle
LONDON, April 24.—The United Nations are winning the battle of wool against Germany, says the "Daily Express." Co-operation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Back to Farms
SYDNEY.—Giving details of the transfer of munition workers back to the land the New South Wales Manpower Director (Mr. Bellemore)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pathetic Case Of Overworked Farmer
LONDON, April 26. — Throughout his life Sam Brunt, a 60-year-old farmer, tilled his 600-acre Cheshire farm, which was known as one of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Markets Cattle Section
S.A. Stock Salesmen's Report: A short supply of cattle was yarded in Monday's Adelaide Abattoirs market, 1,190 coming to hand. The catalogue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Research Saves £10,000,000
An interesting statement was made in the House of Commons when Sir Charles Gibson, in appealing for morn Government Assistance for scientific…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News From Minindee Cattle and Horses Die in Drought
Quite a good few cattle and horses have been found dead in the Menindee Loke area of Kinchega Station—the victims of the drought. In common with most places below…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Restrictions on Wool More Than in Any Other Country Sydney, April 27
Broadly speaking, the public were receiving better value now compared with before the war, sold William Becker, a director of William Becker Pty. Ltd…
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